Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has approved the payment of N30,000 as monthly stipends to Ready.Set.Work (RSW) interns who have been placed in various organisations for six-month paid internships.
The governor also approved N8 million in seed funding for the top five winners of the RSW Business Pitch Competition,
whose businesses would be placed in incubation, while the beneficiaries would commence their internships and incubation respectively on March 1, 2018.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank-Olemoh, in a statement weekend said the interns were part of the 2,000 final year students from six tertiary institutions in the State who took part in the 2017 edition of the 13-week intensive Entrepreneurship and Employability training programme.
He said the Ready.Set.Work programme, which held its pilot programme in 2016 with 500 final year students from three tertiary institutions in Lagos State, was scaled up in 2017 to 12,000 students from six institutions including Lagos State University; University of Lagos...
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